Sawsan Wehbi

Entered the Program: ABBS 2021; Genetics Fall 2022

Research Advisor: Joanna Masel

Research Topic: Astrobiology

Research Interests: The origins of life and early life preferences. Currently working on identifying proteome-wide amino acid frequency trends in extreme environments as well as re-inferring the proteome of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) while accounting for horizontal gene transfer.